Sign in with your username account register on www.sopcast.com . If you don't have a user name yet, you may choose to sign in anonymously or click the link on the bottom right to create a new account.

[notes] Most channels are available for anonymous users, so if you can't sign in with your account at peak time, please always try with anonymous user.

4. Home

When you sign in successfully, you will now see the home frame of SopCast as the picture shown below.

Some key links of Sopcast is listed in home tab, we can find more detail information about SopCast by clicking these links.

The layout of SopCast contains 3 sections as below: Address Area: channels viewing history will be listed in drop-down box, you can input a sop address (such as sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/6001) or just the channel id 6001 in it to view a channel.

Clicking "Live Channels" tab will list all available live channels now, as shown below:

Channel List

Channel list will be refreshed by system automatically. You can also refresh it by click "refresh" button.

The channels you subscribed will be listed on the top of the channel list if you have subscribed some.

Double-click channel name to open Player window and the channel will start automatically.

Channel list control buttons

Press this button down to list all your favorite channels, press this button up to list all channels. Press this button to Expand/Collapse channel list. Press this button to Refresh channel list manually. Press this button to choose the way of sorting channels, this can be by channel group, by class, by channel id, by regions, by language and by favorite. You can also choose to view channel list in which language, nowadays English and Chinese are available.

This blue bar is a channel quality indicator, click this bar to view detail information about this channel (as shown in the picture below).

Next to quality indicator are channel id, channel name and channel ratio in turn, channel ratio is marked by square brackets.

Double-click channel name to open Player window and the channel will start automatically.

Player Option Buttons

Press this button to hide main window and set player window top most. You can drag this window to any corner of your screen, thus you can watch channels while you surfing over Internet. Enjoy it.

Press this bottom to display main window, and switch channels. Press this button to zoom out player window. Press this button to zoom in player window. Press this button to Add the channel to your favorites. Press this button to record the channel. No channel is playing, the record button is disabled. This button will displayed when the channel is recording. Press this button to hide player window, this button is disabled when main window is hide.

Player control buttons

Information bar, name of the playing channel, buffer, and live massage will be shown in it.

Buffer indicator, when the buffer grow up over 60, the channel will be played fluently.

Open in external player, Press this button to player the channel in external media player, such as Windows Media Player, vlc and RealPlayer etc.